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I agree with you there as well, but only if they are remastered properly. Pink Floyd Animals comes to mind, the release that I have sounds much better than the original CD even though it has more compression. Again, all things being the same, less compression sounds better.
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That's certainly true. But dynamics, and the nuance of dynamics, are key aspects of musicianship. So they are often a clue as to the quality of a performance or recording.
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Dynamic range has little to do with the quality of a performance. DR is the provenance of the recording and mastering engineers.
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Musical content and genre preferences aside, any dynamic range compressed music in not music. You wouldn't want to drive a Ferrari on square tires so why should one accept the square wave instead of nature's sine wave in music?
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If the dynamic range compression did not happen, we'd be spending far less time chasing the elusive high end sounding system and far more enjoying music and being totally content with the gear that we already have.
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You may I wouldn't. I have never, not once made a listening decision based on dynamic range.
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Back when I played horn (decades ago), I struggled with a Mozart piece. I drove my teacher nuts until he introduced a new exercise of just mastering the notes ppppp first. Once I achieved that - and I mean that relatively - we then practiced the dynamics. That's how the performance came together. Later, I played with Chuck Mangione. When we rehearsed his piece for performance ("Hill Where the Lord Hides"), dynamics were all we concentrated on. If you listen to that composition, you realize it's nothing without the proper dynamic relationships. The same is true of Ravel's Bolero. Those are obvious examples; usually, the use of dynamics is more subtle. But that the dynamics may be subtle doesn't mean they aren't critical. A lot of music is based on subtlety.
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Well recorded music with dynamic range intact draws far less attention to itself or the system and instead the mind is free to soak it all in instead of being distracted by the deficiencies and unnatural sound. |
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There really is no arguing that dynamic range should be intact as much as possible. Arguing to the contrary is just being silly.
Of course such is not the case and really never was with the limitations of the various types of media. Tape and vinyl could not capture or reproduce the full spectrum of the dynamic range in some genres. CD improved it but was used to instead create loudness and clip the dynamic range to increase sales to the typical unsuspecting customer. With the music streaming age upon us, I am sure that will change and is already happening. Of course we will never be able to enjoy some of those classics since we can't undo the damage done. But going forward it will get much better with the new music. The only question is will the new artists and new music appeal to us... Last edited by PHC1; 01-04-2019 at 01:09 PM. |
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